Now it is no fun to me to deceive anyone but myself, and hence I shall not go about with my arm in a sling and win sympathy and attention to which I am not entitled; but I do appeal to all the young women to have a little pity on some of us compulsory stay-at-homes. Nothing is too good for our fighting men. I repeat it. But just a tiny spark of animation might be retained in the feminine eye when it alights upon an old friend who is debarred from taking arms. Just a spark, otherwise we shall go into a melancholy decline.
Smart Work.
"Owner gone to the front, friend offers his Wolseley ... £165, an extraordinary opportunity."—Advt. in "Autocar."
If we were not confident that we should be wrong in putting upon these words the sinister interpretation which they invite, we shouldn't envy the advertiser when the owner returns.
From verses in Punch, October 21st:—
"We have made progress near to Berry au Bac,
And on our right wing there is nothing new."
From the French official report, November 12th:—